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We claim to believe in a God who spoke the universe into existence and literally raised himself from the dead, and yet we're not going to believe that anything else exists in the spirit realm, even though His word tells us that they do. Their bodies weren't permitted to go to sleep like humans do, and they weren't permitted to go to heaven, so they wander the earth. You know, I've seen the eyes turn black to unknown tongues being spoken.
These giants would love way up in the island, the young Braves. The young men would hide up in the trees and wait for one of these 12 footers to come walking down the path and they would jump on them and kill them, drag them back to the village and the village would feast on the body freedom. Then people start to get weapons, they start to get armor, they start to build cities, they start to fortify their cities. Now God looks down and there's
violence everywhere. The battle, this war that we are at, is not against each other. It's against these principalities and these rulers and these archons in the high places. It's really worthwhile to read the Bible yourself. Fear is one of the primary drivers of mind control because we have to take every thought captive and resist fear. You're going to have a testimony that is a justice case against the Kingdom of darkness. Welcome back to the millennial Mustard Seed.
I'm your host, Rod. Thanks for being here. For another cool episode, I'm joined by Marie Becher. She is the host of two podcasts, Hospice Explained and Hospice Encounters Piercing the Veil, both really cool podcasts. Marie has been working in hospitals for 35 plus years, specifically with Hospice patients. She jumps into some personal and fascinating stories that she has experienced over her time. And this episode is not exclusive to the Hospice conversation.
She shares a time a few different times where some supernatural things happened in the course of her life. This is really a cool episode. I'm a big fan of what she does on both of her podcasts, bringing recognition to Hospice end of life process. You know, just being an advocate for people that work in the medical field that are in that environment. That's what they do for a
living. And then also the people who don't know anything about Hospice and then find themselves at the end of life going, hey, I'm choosing Hospice, what do I expect? So it's a place where you can share experiences and also people in those professional settings can listen to other people's stories. We get into so much more than just Hospice.
On this episode, which I loved about this conversation, she shares a few gems throughout the course of her life of wild stuff that happened to her one story in particular when she was a teenager. I'm not going to get into the details. You got to stick around for the rest of the episode to hear that, and it's definitely going to be worth your while. So let me do some maintenance here real quick. I need you guys to like, share,
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on deck. I think it's about time to jump into this episode. I'm ready. Are you guys ready? Let's. Go, let's go. Hello, my name is Marie Becher. I am host of Hospice Explain podcast and Hospice Encounters podcast. Welcome to the millennial Mustard. Seed Podcast Marie, it is an honor to have you here with me. Thank you for being here. Thank you. I'm I'm excited. You're a registered nurse and you are the sole creator and host of Hospice Explained and also Hospice Encounters Piercing
the veil. You interviewed me, I want to say a few months back, right? Was it like the end of last year? I could tell you what episode I wrote it down one SEC here. Well, I did write it down. Now my chicken scratched it. Hang on a second, I want number. I'm pretty sure you're #20 let me, I might not have wrote it on my. Mail. Yeah, it was it was October 29th of last year, episode 20 for you. We had a great conversation. You know, it felt good to get certain things off my chest.
I know I've talked about my near death encounter. It's not fancy Wu and wah, you know, but it was really cool to have this place where you were just genuine. You cared about what I was saying. You gave me a space to share this encounter that in my early years really wrestled with what how to make sense of it, dealing with, you know, all the things that came along with that
experience. So I just want to recognize you for what you're doing on both of your podcasts to really create a space where there's no gatekeeping. It's just people can come and get things off the chest, share what they're going through. So why don't you tell us, Just start off real quick. Tell us a little bit about you
have two different podcasts. Tell us the names and kind of what happens on each one 'cause I know my audience may kind of favor one of your podcasts more than the other, generally speaking. No, absolutely. And I think that's realistic. So I'm a registered nurse and I've been a nurse for so I've been a registered nurse for 36 years. I worked primarily in the hospital for 30 of them in multiple different roles.
And I ended up finding myself in Hospice and loved it, loved it, loved it. I found an overwhelming need for education. The a lot of people don't end up choosing Hospice until it's really close to the end and then they need a lot of education real fast. And I ended up going part time with Hospice and then I have separated. I don't work Hospice.
I'm still a registered nurse. But I actually stopped working Hospice because I found that I emotionally just really got too invested and I felt like it's, it's just was a better place for me to be a podcaster for it. And So what I do is I've been educating people on Hospice. It's literally called Hospice explained. And I feel like it's a safe place for spiritually because there's just a lot of people. My heart is to bring the education no matter what
somebody believes. And so I just bring it in like I, I literally call it that safe place. So no matter what people believe, they can just listen and not feel like I'm going to be pounding a hammer on judgment or, or, you know, any religious beliefs. And just so people, your audience knows that they don't have to be a believer in Jesus or any religion to be on a Hospice service. For the most part, Medicaid, Medicare and insurance is all covered.
And so Hospice is a benefit. It's your benefit. You've paid into this system. You deserve to get something out of it. And So what you get is a nurse, you get a social worker, you get a chaplain, you get a ACNA that usually does bath care or you know, shower care, whatever somebody needs. And and you get a physician. They physicians don't tend to come to the home. And so you have a service, you have a team, you have a full team of people helping somebody in that end of life season.
And so I've just taken it on to explain it. And I was a podcasting for about a year and I read this book and, and I got to I've got to read the title. So I read this book called Imagine heaven, near death Experiences God's Promise and and the Exhilarating future that awaits you by John Burke and jury. I hadn't even read the whole book. I had read the first half of the book and it says you have to
tell your story. And I kind of paused and I went, Oh, I have a lot of stories and I and I just kept hearing that you have to tell your story. You have to tell your story. And I'm like, I'm already a working wife, mom, you know, etcetera and podcaster. And now I'm thinking about my
second podcast. So I created Hospice Encounters and we added Piercing the Veil because it really fits as you listen to it. So Hospice Encounters, I like to think of it as because I'm a Christian, I can just go there. I don't go there on Hospice, explain, but I go there on Hospice Encounters. I haven't done a lot of episodes and I don't do them, you know, I try to do them with regularity, but it's it's hard with with Hospice explained where I trying
to reach that weekly level. So I have not reached that sequential method with Hospice encounters. And I'm just going to be honest, it's time related, but I started Hospice encounters in like the first episode is just telling the story. And if you'd like me, Rod, I can pause. Because I just. Don't want to ramble on without any questions. I got to hear at least one or two of your stories out of that.
That's easy. You got a diversity of different, you know, people coming on to testify, other people in the medical field, other podcasters. But I want you to tell me what is some of the most profound things that does not have to be an interview you've done, but just throughout your time in Hospice over all these years. Give us like a gem story. All right, that's an easy one. Well, my first one, I'll actually, I got multiple, but I'll give you my first one. This is the easiest.
My mom and my dad taught me who I am, you know, and my belief system and they did a great job. I said yes to Jesus in Sunday school before I turned 3. I'll never forget my mom goes. Do you want to go to Sunday? School and I said yes, you know, obviously you have to be not going to joke about it, but you have to be potty trained, you know, so I was potty trained and she's like, do you want to go to Sunday school? And I'm like, I knew the rules. You were supposed to be 3.
But, you know, of course, it's a small little Lutheran Church. And I got in and I'm pretty sure I said yes, the very first Sunday. I remember couple of the ladies, one of them still alive, actually. And they, they were singing songs. They said, OK, we're going to pray. And I, you know, close your eyes and we're going to pray. And do you want Jesus in your heart? I remember looking around. I was thinking about this today. I thought he's going to ask me something.
And I poked my, you know, looked my eyes around and. I raised my hand. I don't remember if anybody else did, but I even I remember looking at one of the teachers said she was like pointing at me and pointing to the other teachers like I think they wrote down. You know who said yes because of course they all knew us. So this is who I am and how I was raised. I was raised from an early time to know the Lord.
And so my mom is AI don't want to call her a St. but she is a St. because she's she's passed on. I thought there was going to be some bells and whistles when she died. I was wrong. The only thing I can tell you that happened is the day before mom died, I was a young, young nurse. My sisters are nurses and my brothers are not. And my dad's not in the medical field. So we're just wondering. She was dying of heart and lung problems and we weren't sure exactly when she was going to
die. She had been dying for a long time. And I mean, 3 1/2 years of this slow rumble. And so we had called her sister the night before she died and she said, you know what tomorrow is? And we said, no, she goes, tomorrow is 40 years to the day that Big Mama died, which is my mom's grandma or excuse me, my mom's mom. So we knew mom was dying the next day. And I was there and I was like, I don't know if I thought angels were going to come pick her up or, you know, I don't know.
I'd been with patients dying, but I just thought something special was going to happen. And I think the special piece that I have to look back on was that I found out, you know, I'd been worrying when she would die. And I found out the day before, you know, this is it. You know, she doesn't have much longer. And it was peaceful. So I'm going to Fast forward 10 years. My dad died 10 years later, and
he died at my home. We put him in my bonus room like, you know, an extra bedroom and had a hospital bed brought in and did the whole Hospice thing. And to the night we gathered, 'cause we just kind of knew then I had been a much more experienced nurse and I knew, OK, we're get, we're getting there. Dad, just laying there looking at the ceiling. There's ten of us minimum in the room, maybe more 'cause we were visiting 'cause we knew this was our, our last visit.
He goes, wow. I said, what, what do you, what, what do you, what's up, dad? And he goes. I see the sky, and I see the great beyond, and it's beautiful. I still get choked up. I said to my son, turn off the lights, 'cause I was like, I don't want anybody to go. Oh, he sees lights on the ceiling and he goes, oh, I see the great beyond. And he just kept saying it with that emphasis. It's beautiful. And he went to sleep that night
and died about 30-6 hours later. You know, went into what I call a semi comatose state, really peaceful. And he passed peacefully. But peaceful as to me, I got to know, you know, the maker of the universe shared something about his universe with our family. I'm gonna pause. Wow. The verse that was coming softly into my remembrance as I'm listening is God will give you
an expected end. We all have to face death at some point and when it's someone that we love and we are a witness to the this end chapter and and the gem that gets dropped, you know, your dad is telling you, Hey, I I'm seeing
the great and beautiful beyond. I think that that's comforting for a lot of people that may be on the fence or just have never really thought about it. Or maybe, well, I know there's other people out there like me who kind of had some weird wake up calls and then they're wrestling what's really going to happen when I die. So that brings comfort. That's a part of the testimony you have. And I just want to I honor you and just applaud you for sharing that. And I know it's emotional.
It was, it was wonderful. And it was I just, you know, it's really interesting. And I feel like I got through my dad's death so much differently than my mom's. And some of that's maturity, some of that's experience, but.
It I just brought me so much peace and I think it's changed how I look at death and life And just, you know, it's probably why I've shared on Hospice encounters Pearson that veil a few of the near death experiences because I feel like I just I just want to encourage people that there is more out there that this is not a finite, this is not it. This is not all there is. Yeah, I couldn't agree more.
I do have. My story of you've probably heard it, but the the one where I had the Hospice patients. So if you want me to tell that one, we. Can Oh no, I do yeah, as many as you want. And then if you want to tell us another story or two and then I'll drop a couple more questions.
I'm actually excited to hear this one because I think I know briefly what it. Is so I'm going to tell a few I'll tell you a few more stories I I'm not going to deny that you may be disappointed if you listen to all my podcasts because. I have most of those. Stories are in the beginning few episodes are mine, but I, I love
the simple one. My son's dog Ranger, he was 10 and he had a really aggressive cancer and my son decided to come to my house and he hired somebody There's, there's folks that will go to your house to, you know, help you when your dog needs to go for the end of life. So they had it in two, two sections. My son, my husband left the house and took. Two of our dogs out of the house just so they weren't there. So my son was sitting on one couch and I was sitting on another.
My my youngest daughter was there with him. So she was sitting on the couch with my son and I was alone on the other couch. And the person that was helping Ranger was actually standing behind at this moment. So Ranger had had his first injection. And I think there was two injections. She gave him one to relax him and was just letting that kick in. So he's relaxed and he, he just kind of, I remember watching this dog and he just, you know, he's a big lab. He's a £85 lab.
He wasn't a small dog. So you can see his eyes and I'm just watching because that's what, you know, I'm assessing, watching, thinking what's happening. And that dog, you could just see he kind of lifted his head off my son's lap and shook his head a little bit. And he looked across the room and he looked towards the towards the left and you can see his eyes. He changed focus, looked in the middle.
He changed focus, looked again. So he literally had looked at what I consider maybe three people, 3 angels. Then he looked at me. Then he looked at one more person on the couch. And I don't remember if there was one more beyond that. I remember trying to think about that. So he may have looked at 5:00, but it was kind of like, I'm pretty sure one of those was there for him. I'm sorry, that one's really
bothers me too. I really think the animals go somewhere, Rod, I really do. Oh my gosh, I just got triggered. Had no idea this would happen. But the child, you know, not child, I wasn't a child, but the dog that I had, Mackenzie, she was a dog I loved. She was at my mom's house. She passed when she was 15. And this is a few years back. So this dog came into my life when I was about 15 years old, right? And same thing happened. She couldn't go up and down the
steps anymore. Like we knew it was coming. So I went over, you know, my mom had quote, UN quote the people who come to assist to take your dog into the afterlife, right? And I'll never forget when these people came, she looked at them, at me, back at them and growled at them and just laid her head down and looked at me with the most patient and loving look and let the rest of the process go. And that kind of, you know, I haven't really went there in a while.
So, so weird when you were telling that story, I was so triggered. I like, I literally frog in the throat. I'm like, Oh my gosh, I just went back because I put that on the back burner. But I felt some type of way about that when that happened, when Mackenzie said, I'm sorry, it you triggered me. I had to, I had to get that off my chest. So I didn't go to sleep on what being like, man, I should have just got that one out into the ether. But there's something going on there.
I don't know. I mean, you know, Pet Sematary is a movie from when I was growing up and super creepy and there was these seated ideas in the millennial generation's mind about the creepy end of it. But I don't think that's the truth. I, I think that God is way more complicated and beautiful then any of us could really wrestle
with the reality of that. And I don't think that there's a bond that we take place with an animal that's just like, like God is up there going, Oh, I've made a billion dogs. That one doesn't matter. I don't believe the God that I worship and serve of all creation thinks like that. I think everything has a purpose and a value and, and everything is a test. And when we do it right, there's rewards. We have friends waiting for us on the other side. Furry friends, if I could say it
that way. I my, my daughter actually on Hospice encounters in I can't remember what episode and probably episode 3. No, maybe not that early, but anyway, she, she witnessed it. She witnessed she was sitting next to my son and she gets on the episode and says I saw it 'cause I remember going, am I just me? I don't know that my son saw it. He was just focused on the dog, but Haley watched, she said, Oh yeah, there's an absolute. He was looking at something and it wasn't us in the room.
So I could I'll just keep going with my Angel stories here for here's a simple one. Here's here's just a this flat out fact that I worked night shift.
I'm a registered nurse and I work night shift and I do 12 hour nights and they're hard sometimes to come home and go to sleep, you know, So, so I'd come home and take a bath, you know, and I have this kind of a triangle shaped it's, I don't want to call it a triangle, but it's a, it's an odd, it's an odd shaped tub that fits into the bathroom. And nobody was home. Everybody went to school and
work. So I'm home alone and I was just sitting in the tub and it's a bigger oversized tub and the water's filling, you know, and my mind is just, you know, starting to let go of all the nights busyness. And I started falling forward. Now I know it, I wouldn't have probably fell over in the tub, but I might have because it was such an odd shape. I think I was going to hit my head on the, you know, the spout, if I can remember right. And a hand stopped me. So my eyes were shut as I was
falling forward. But I know you know what a hand feels like. You know what something feels like when it stops you. And it wasn't the tub. And I opened her eyes because I woke right up. You know how you just immediately wake up and you're like, yeah, nobody's here? Yeah. OK, Thank you, God. Thank you, Angel. You know, I appreciate the help. Obviously, I needed it that day.
I know I have a guardian Angel and I will go ahead and I'll tell you how I know it. So I told you my literal come to Jesus, you know, I so I don't want to say it like that. I told you in the beginning that I said yes to Jesus. So I am a Christian and I did my best, you know, I always prayed, I always, you know what I mean? But you know there's always teenager moments, right? We teenagers can be make silly choices fast some of us we all have these moments, right?
So I was leaving a friend's house and I'm. Thinking it had to be close to midnight, I used to be have to be home by midnight. So I know it was close to midnight. I they were they were only like 15 minutes away. I lived at the time near Seattle Tacoma International Airport. So I was driving from from South of the airport to just north of the airport where I lived. And somebody, you know how you just, it's, it's late.
There's nobody on the road. I mean, we're talking 45 years ago, whatever it was 40 years ago. There's nobody on the road because it's just, it was a not rural, but it just wasn't as populated, right. So somebody's tailgating me so tight. They're just inches from my, my bumper and you, they were so close. I almost didn't see them because they were literally so close. You know how you look backwards and you see lights? Well, there were no lights because they were hidden behind the car.
So I'm in my mom's little Ford Fairmont, and this person passes me on the corner. So a corner of going around the on the freeway. And I pointed them to heaven with my middle finger. Yeah, I'm going to own that. I I it's not something I normally did either. So it was kind of like, you know, you know, just not not it
was not nice. And I regretted it because it enraged them, but I regretted it anyway because it wasn't the nice thing to do. And this person started like harassing me on the freeway, you know, and I didn't even, you know, road rage wasn't even a thing.
So I'm I'm probably 17 or 18. I don't remember being 18, but I might have been already 18. And so I like thinking I'm going to pull off to the side of the freeway, you know, take an exit when they're in the fast lane and they're going to go past. And no, they just drove up the hill in the gravel and chased me down. And then and of course, there's a light at the top and it was like stop or go, you know, And it was kind of like, so I stopped at the light a lot.
My doors were locked. And I'm like, Lord, forgive me. I know. I prayed that with 100%. I said, you know, Lord forgive me. I, you know, literally do not know what I do. Just please protect me. I don't know, you know, you know, people are. Like, oh, I, I would have drove. Around I had a six cylinder Ford Fairmont. I knew the power of this vehicle was not, you know, I wasn't going to be a match for a man that had a you know, could probably take his car like a race car, you know, and it
wasn't a race car. I don't mean that it was, but you know what I mean. This is an adult man that could probably dry out drive me no matter what. So he came, he parked behind me and he came up to my car and he just started losing it on me. Of course, he tried to get in the car and he couldn't. I think he was gonna. I don't. I don't doubt that he would have done something very not good to me. But he stopped just mid screaming stopped.
And his eyes glazed over and he's looking at my passenger seat Rod. There's nobody in the passenger seat. This is an empty car. I am alone and he is staring at it. And this is enough so that I have looked back and forth 10 times. I'm like, OK, well, you know, my mom always talked about angels. So I'm like, maybe, maybe there's an Angel here. You know, there's no indent in the seat. There's. Nothing, you know. There's nothing to see.
I had nothing to literal see. And this this man just all of a sudden straightened up, stood up, backed away from the car and he yelled at me. And he says, don't flip people off and starts marching back to his car. And I found, you know, there's sometimes obviously you still say things that you don't need to, but I felt this power to say, well, then don't tailgate people, you know? And he came back to start screaming at me again.
And he looked at my passenger and just turned around and walked and walked and drove away. I know, I know that's a that's a story. I just have to pause because I could just keep talking and talking. When his eyes glazed over, was it like in shock or did he literally have like something physical that was happening to him? That's a good question. It's crazy. I thought about that today. So it's not like the movies where you, you know, they go white or they go black or, you
know, anything crazy. You could just tell what you. So if you were to look at somebody, just like I could see the dog's focus, you can see when somebody's focused on something besides you if you're in a conversation with them. And he's, you know, inches from my face. The only thing separating this was the car door and the window. And so I could see his face, 'cause he's leaned over. He wasn't a tall guy. I could see his face, very. Clearly. And I could see 'cause his jaw
relaxed, his mouth opened. Like, you know how you just kind of when you're really listening intently, you might talk your head to the side. And so all these little cues and you're like in back of your head, you're like, he is definitely talking to somebody. Somebody's giving him a talking to. And so as part of it as like I just shut up, but I'm like, I'll let let them give him a talking to. Who's? Them you know who's. Fascinating.
The Angel, you know, you just know that he's getting, you just know it. So, so I have more to say about him. He I, this is really hard to say and this is something I've had to struggle and wrap my head around. This happened in the years that Gary Ridgway, who was a serial killer, was in my area. I know people that worked with him. He lived in my area and he was killing people in the Seattle Tacoma. He was killing prostitutes.
So he he had blood lust in his eyes when I mean this person was going to hurt me. But but I don't know what you want to add to this or take away Rod. I don't know how you want to. I'm not going to say it was him. I'm not saying that because I can't. I can't say that for sure. I just have a I've had a gut feeling for a long time that that's who it was. You know, I talk about this kind of stuff and I can't prove it, but I believe that there are foul spirits that are of common
bond, right? So the same spirit that can be on somebody like a spirit of murder or lust. It's I believe those spirits are in cahoots together. It doesn't mean it's like that spirit left somebody else to come into that person because these both of these people share lust. I don't, I don't think it's like that in the spirit world. I just think that they have their own interface system where just like we're able to birds of a feather flock together, right? You hang out with good people.
The Bible says hang with the wise, become wiser, right? It says hang with fools and it it can crumble your moral compass. So I think in the spirit world it parallels that. So when you say you seen, you know that something about this guy. There was kind of like an essence there if your gut was registering, like, yo, that is a common threatening spirit that
has been identified. I think that's a fascinating point to bring up, Marie. And and I think it's important enough to just even spend that little extra time like we did on it because other people out there are going to be like, yeah, you know what? You ever just meet somebody and you get a feeling that resonates with other people that were off that you met throughout your life, you get the same kind of weird, something's off. I think it's spirits that are foul rolled together. They.
Do they do? I mean, I just know no matter what this person, they just don't. You just don't go charging up to a young teenager without I'll intent that we know, irregardless of whether it really was or really wasn't. He had I'll intent no matter who he was. And he got a good talking to. I always laugh. I'm saying that I don't know if he got a good talking to. I I mean, who knows what was going on spiritually? Who knows what was happening?
Well, it's clear his reaction, there was some type of engagement happening, and the imagination can only run wild to try to understand. So that that's a very, really powerful story when it comes to working in the building, the years you spent doing Hospice. I'm not asking for a creepy story, OK, Because I don't like to focus on the the depth of the darkness. I just want to hear two different stories side by side. Like this was kind of creepy and dark and this one was beautiful. Do you?
Can you do that for us here? Well, I could start with the let's see here. So for me, for Hospice, what I have to clarify is that I was an admission nurse. I did not tend to see them die as much. I, I got, I was really good because I worked so many years in the hospital and in that emergent fashion where, you know, I go in and figure out what's wrong and, you know, fix
things. I found that it was, it wasn't like Hospice emergency room, 'cause they're not emergent services, they are definitely not. But I would go in and try and fix those things that were broken, fix them so they could get peaceful and die. So I didn't spend as many times with dying patients.
But I can tell you, I can tell you a few stories, not about that, but I will be straight up that in the old buildings at some of the, some one of the facilities I worked at that the elevators in the middle of the night would open and close and do some funny things. The monitors will go off and on when they're not supposed to. There are lots of things happening in there, bumps in the night and then you're just not very comfortable with. So for Hospice, I have my, my
big story. So this was an actual Hospice visit. I was going to do an admission and they said, hey, Marie, can you go see this patient in the hospital? So if we were seeing a patient in the hospital instead of the home, what's happening is they were dying and we didn't get a chance to get him home or something to that effect. So I remember this person, she was at a minimum early 80s minimum, maybe mid.
I saw her on a, let's just say I saw her on a Saturday because of what happens is I would do those during the week or otherwise somebody else might have done it. So I saw her on a Saturday and I met her family and you know, we just had a great conversation and it's like, you know, tell me about your sister, 'cause she was already in the patient was already in a comatose state on Saturday, so you couldn't get her to rise and say or anything. There was no reactions.
They were just keeping her comfortable in the hospital. And her sister was really kind of like, I'm kind of surprised she hasn't died yet. And I said, why is that? And she's, you know, I said, does she have her spiritual, she's physically comfortable? How's her spiritual life? Is she spiritually at peace? And she goes, yeah, she's a Christian. She's she should be just fine. I said, OK, you know, and I probably offered to pray with
the family. And I believe they said yes, just for comfort and peace and not as a Christian in Hospice. What I you offer something, you know, and if you're a Christian, well, that's fair, 'cause that's what you are, right? You're going to, you can pray with them, but it's only an offer if they don't want it, they say no and it's no big deal. You go on. And that would happen every so often if I just felt LED, you know, I'd be like, hey, do you want me to pray for you?
And they'd be like, yes, yes, please. So this Sunday, the next day, I go back and I visited this patient first in the morning 'cause I had a couple admissions to go do. And another thing I'm doing when I'm going to the hospital is I want to make sure the nurses know, hey, you can call me if you have questions. You know, we can help you get this patient comfortable. So it's all right. I go in the room, it's just right after eight or right around 8:00 in the morning.
So it's, it's, I don't remember what time of the year, but it's, it's very, it's well lit, but the room lights are off. It's a two-bedroom. The patient's by the window, the window curtains, I believe, are partially open, not fully open.
And so I go in and, and, you know, I just start, I just whisper, you know, hi. So and so I'm Marie, I'm here to, you know, I'm just going to do a few vital signs and check on you because see how you're doing, you know, are you in pain or, you know, you just kind of talk to them like they're going to answer you, but they may not. And I said, I'm just going to, you know, put this little thing on your finger and I'm going to check your oximeter and I'm going to check your temperature.
And I just kind of listened and you can kind of hear the gurgling in the lungs. And, you know, I just touched the scythoscope to the chest. And, you know, and I said, you know, I'm kind of put my stuff away. And I was like, maybe I, you know, I prayed yesterday with
this family. I'll go ahead and pray with them, pray with this patient, you know, So I just said a quiet little prayer, you know, and it was more of just just praying for her, this patient's peace and blessing and, you know, peaceful passing because I. You know, as much as you want to, I just can't, it couldn't sit there, right? And her family wasn't there yet. And I don't know when they were going to get there. But so Rod, I'm, I'm walking
away. I grab my bag and I go around to the end of the bed and I'm walking towards the door and I see something on the side of my my face and, and, and you have to just stop. And you just kind of like, OK, I'm seeing something, you know, and you're just like, your brain's starting to catch up. I am seeing something. I'm really seeing something. It actually took me several years before I realized what I saw. So a lake is horizontal, right? Flat, and you see ripples in the
water. This is vertical water, basically. And I was watching the TV show Stargate and I was like. Oh my gosh. That's what it was. I saw that lake literally standing up next to me, so it wasn't like. How's it this I? Struggled to describe this. I so struggled to describe this. So, so, so it's it's ripples, almost a misty look. And I look and I'm like, OK, so I can see beyond the room, you know, can I see out the next room? No. Can I see into the next room? No.
But I'm like, you look down at the floor and you're like, there's a wheelchair against the wall and there's, you know, odds and ends because at the end of the bed to the wall, it's, it's, I don't even want to say 5 feet, but, you know, there's five. Feet at the end, but. I could see depth. I so could I see people? Could I see figures? Could I see angels? Could I see any spiritual thing other than the effects? No, I could only see this, this water effect, almost like a mistiness.
And I went to the other bed and I stood there and I just stared at the patient and the And this water effect, I keep calling it a water effect 'cause I don't want to call it a Stargate, 'cause I mean, but. It. Was a portal. It was a tunnel. I'm just describing, you know that. And I just kept saying that same thing and I'm like, this is really something, you know, and you're just like I, I laugh nowadays and I'm thinking some people be like, I want to go in it. Well, I technically did.
I walked through it. Nothing happened to me because I walk through it because I walked at the end of the bed, But I thought our words. I said this on another podcast actually, I think I think our that prayer just helped open the portal. It helped open it. I think it really did. I what's a good way to I'm a little stumped for words right now, but I don't want to say that my prayer opened the portal.
I'm not going to say that it did, but it, maybe it helped it maybe, maybe the timing was just right. Maybe it was just the fact that I just happened to be there at the right place and the right time and God just says, OK, Marie, today's the day you get to see something special. I think that's where the patient was going to get going on her
her journey. Yeah, that's such a great way to look at it. You know, with all of this antidotical stuff, personal experiences, what we read in the Bible, there has to be some humility because not one person has it all figured out. And just the way you depicted that it's, it's genuine, it's sincere. We don't want to use language like it was a Stargate just like episode, you know, whatever from from this TV show or something. Like we don't really want to do that.
But sometimes we don't have the vocabulary other than something like that, because a lot of stuff has been, you know, hush hush or just not. It's campfire stories. And, and, and that's what I love about what you do, Marie, is you're giving people a license to be like, you know what,
you're not alone. There's actually way more people out there than we probably ever would have previously realized until the day of technology came along to connect us all that there's tons of stories and tons of experiences that do parallel each other. And I say a lot of the times the God we wish to worship, I don't say that disrespectfully to anybody, but I say that as like the eye opener Marie that there's no denominational preference with God.
He's he's omnipotent. He's omnipotent where I like I'm when I'm talking about God, I'm talking about literally the creator, the light giver, the one who brings calamity, the one who brings increase. All things are in his hand. So when I hear stories like that, I'm like a little kid at the candy store. I'm like this.
We're getting closer to the heart of understanding our experiences and this vast, you know, network of people that kind of have been governed by the fear of can I talk about what I've seen or experienced because of things like a religious spirit or just fear mongering or just not feeling like you can fit in. There's not not a better compliment I can give you then to invite you on and literally ask my audience to go check out what you're doing and to hear
your story, 'cause I believe in what you're doing and you sharing those stories right now, almost every episode. God has allowed us to interact with the ripple effect. Marie, I'm still trying to understand how to explain this to people, but this stuff happens where a story, encouragement, the word, the eternal word that never returns void, It goes out, right? So we send it forth and it stirs something else and somebody else up. Then there's testimonies that come forth.
It's like a chain reaction. We don't see all of it. Oh my gosh, I probably don't even see .001% of what God has done through these little podcasts. But when we do see something, we understand it's very important. Give us some closing statements on just like your testimony, any loose ends that you'd like to tie and I'm just going to hand the mic back to you. Thank you so much for your kind words about my podcasts. I appreciate that. I just used Campfire Stories couple episodes ago.
I think if you heard that campfire conversation, I think I used or have I even used it yet? Oh my goodness. I'm just looking at my I. Don't even that's funny. You said campfire that I literally said it or I'm going to say it. Conversations in Hospice explain because it's what a fitting words is. People need to be able to have hard conversations with people.
And I want to just say, interestingly enough, I did not tell anybody about that person that almost hurt me that talked to my guardian Angel until I told like one person the next day. And they're like. Oh, I would have done. XYZ and I'm thinking you weren't there and I just sealed it up, put that in the vault, didn't tell anybody until right before I ended up sharing it on the podcast. I told my nieces and they're like, wow, this is a great story.
And so then my my other one, I didn't tell anybody for several couple years. What do you say? Like I didn't even have the words you, you called it. I did not have the words to describe what I saw. So, so to wrap up, where am I and what am I doing? I am, I am going to keep on doing Hospice explained. And if somebody that's listening wants to share their Hospice story, I, I love kind of going over those Hospice stories.
If you're a medical professional and you want to encourage somebody, you're welcome to be on Hospice explained. Both of those, you know, they just kind of fit and I really do keep it a safe place for, you know, belief systems. So, you know, you don't have to be believing in a certain system or sorry, not to believe in a certain system.
You don't have to believe a certain way to be a guest on the show by any means on either way on either that or Hospice encounters, but Hospice encounters piercing the veil. And I got that from fellow podcaster Brandon Spain on unrefined podcast. He, he said, I said, Brandon, we were doing a, a podcast group, you know, online and I said Hospice encounters needs more. And he goes, how about piercing
the veil? And I thought, you know, that really, that really picks that piece right in the right in the middle. That's exactly what it is. There's a veil that we can't see. And I came down for me a few times, you know, in the different moments, like when the Angel stopped me from hurting myself in the bathtub, not hurting myself, but falling in the bathtub or, you know, from protecting me as a teenager.
So there's a veil. And if you want to Share your story, and Rod's been on Hospice encounters. If you want to Share your story, I'd be happy to have you. And I got to be honest, Rod, I think it's going towards near death encounters. I don't know why it's not the way I originally intended Hospice encounters to go, but that seems to be kind of the, the way it's starting to head. So I think like you really felt, I, I think it gave you some peace or it gave you, what did you use the word?
It gave you some closure. A place, yeah, like a place to air it out. Like I I recited my experience in my own mind. People in my personal life knew it. But once people started, you know, requesting me to come on their podcast, I think I've been on 1/2 a dozen shows to talk about my experience. Every time it felt a little bit better, it aired it out. Yeah, exactly. And so I, I think that might be where it's heading. I'm not stressing over it
because podcasting. Nobody knows how much time it takes except another podcaster probably, or somebody. That used to podcast. I understand what you're going through. Yeah, I know I I work and I, you know, got lots going on. So podcasting is I'm just not stressing over it. But as this as the folks come in, I'll I'll do the interviews. So I appreciate being on your so sorry, Rod. Thank you so much for having me on Millennial Muster Seed podcast. It's been an honor to have you here.
You're just as genuine and authentic as they come, Marie and I really believe in what you're doing. And I, you know, just to reiterate what you said, I'm in agreement with you. There is no stress. Things morph and change on our shows and, and kind of meeting the need and just going with it is so important to encourage my audience. If you guys have dealt with something, you're not alone. I've had so many people say I'm so intimidated as a listener of all these podcasts for years to
come on a podcast. But I want to encourage you guys. We're real people dealing with real life scenarios, real faith, real problems, right? We're just like, don't put anybody on a pedestal. Reach out to me. Reach out to Marie, however you want to do that and come forward and testify, Marie, It's an honor. Thank you. Thank you very much. Coming to you from Southeastern PA. That's it, That's the show. God bless and goodbye. Hello, my name is Marie Betcher.
I am host of Hospice Explain Podcast and Hospice Encounters podcast and welcome to the Millennial Must. The. I'm sorry. Wait. Welcome. Do you know how many reels of loopers I have with people tongue? I plan to the end of my episode sometimes. Oh my gosh, yeah. I I can use what you've laid down. Just do the welcome to the Millennium mustard seed. Not all put put them together. OK, welcome to the Millennial Mustard Seed podcast. The. None.